While one downtown Wallaceburg project is nearing completion, it appears another has temporarily fallen through the cracks.
The downtown parking lot, which is sandwiched between the former Liquidation World building and a number of businesses, is being resurfaced this year, however… it won’t be happening before WAMBO.
Wallaceburg Coun. Jeff Wesley said a miscue in the engineering department led to the project being overlooked.
“Based on a request by WAMBO this parking lot will have the drainage corrected and a new coat of asphalt by the end of this year,” Wesley said.
“It had been promised that this would have been done before WAMBO, but the Chatham-Kent engineer in charge left and did not pass this project on to anyone. So valuable time was lost. Yes, it fell into a crack due to employee turnover.”
Wesley said the engineering department has promised him that they will do repairs to make the lot safe for WAMBO this year and do the complete job by year’s end.
“Not the timing I wanted but it will still get done,” he said. “There has been a lot of turnover in the C-K engineering department. Stuff unfortunately happens and I accept the explanation from engineering.”
WAMBO chair Bill Wolsing sent a letter to council last year stating that the downtown parking lot on James Street was in rough shape and had multiple tripping hazards for people walking through their event.
WAMBO 27 is slated to take place Aug. 7, 8 and 9.
Maybe they could pave Wellington Street while they are at it. You cannot be looking at what is happening 3 seconds ahead if you are trying to avoid all the potholes. The little piece in front of the firehall sunk, and is now an even worse danger.
Hey have a look at the library parking lot as well. It is full most of the time used heavily by seniors at the seniors centre as well as families for the activities at the library.